Basic system administration skills. A working knowledge of relational database concepts is helpful but not required. javascript is the shell language for MongoDB and rudimentary knowledge of that is also helpful, but not required.

The program of the course:

Week 1. Introduction to MongoDB, installation

Week 2. Operations CRUD – Creating, Reading and Updating Data

Week 3. Advanced query: conditions, aggregation framework, MapReduce

Week 4. Availability – replication and replica sets

Week 5. Performance – optimization and monitoring

Dwight Merriman

Dwight is one of the original authors of MongoDB. In 1995, Dwight co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for ten years. Dwight was the architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which serves tens of billions of ads per day. Dwight is co-founder, Chairman, and the original architect of Panther Express (now part of CDNetworks), a content distribution network (CDN) technology that serves hundreds of thousands of objects per second. Dwight is also a co-founder and investor in BusinessInsider.com and Gilt Groupe.